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Idioms and Phrases

A hurried or impetuous decision or finding, as in George was known for making snap judgments on personnel questions; he rarely bothered to investigate further . This expression, which uses snap in the sense of “quick,” was first recorded in 1841.
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The snap judgment among legal experts was that a federal judge’s dismissal on Nov. 7 of a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the leader in advanced chatbots, will short-circuit an ever-growing effort by artists and writers to keep AI firms from stealing their content.

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The “consular process” takes years and culminates in a brief interview at the consulate by officers with extremely heavy caseloads who must make a snap judgment as to whether the applicant is “admissible” to return to their home in the U.S.

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His snap judgment endangers a planet's civilian population, leaving her to fix the crisis he has created.

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The film also accurately shows Oppenheimer instantly responding, “That’s impossible,” promptly withdrawing his snap judgment and, within a week, outlining how the discovery might be used to make a bomb.

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There’s magic in that snap judgment of understanding how a technology could make your day better.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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